South Bruny National Park, TasmaniaSouth Bruny National Park lies at the southern tip of Bruny Island off the southeast coast of Tasmania. The park encompasses all of the coastline and some of the hinterland between Fluted Cape and the southern part of Gr...

By Peter Prokosch

Tysfjord, Nordland, NorwayTysfjord became in the 1990s a famous ecotourism and whale-watching destination because of its huge wintering herring stocks followed by orcas.

By Peter Prokosch

Balsfjord, South of Tromsø, NorwayBalsfjord is North Norway´s largest agricultural municipality, but the landscape is also characterized by the two fjords, Balsfjord (here on the picture) and Malangen, which give the municipality distinct and beautiful n...

By Peter Prokosch

The silhouette of Spitsbergen from long distanceThe view, which in former centuries Dutch whalers had on Spitsbergen from waters in direction to Greenland, where they were hunting greenland whales. Today tourists get inspired and become ambassadors for Arctic conserva...

By Peter Prokosch

Monemvasia, Peleponnese, GreeceMonemvasia is located on a small island off the east coast of the Peloponnese. The island is linked to the mainland by a short causeway 200m in length. Its area consists mostly of a large plateau some 100 metres above se...

By Peter Prokosch

Crete, GreeceCrete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.The capital and the largest city of Crete is Herakl...

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The Sahara meets the Mediterranean Sea, Coast of Egypt

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The Sahara meets the Mediterranean Sea, Coast of Egypt

By Peter Prokosch

Storm surge "Capella", January 3, 1976, Hilligenley, Hallig Langeness, GermanyThe Gale of January 1976, widely known as the "Capella" storm in Germany, was one in a series of extratropical cyclones and storm surges, which occurred over January 1976. The gale resulted in severe wind damage across w...

By Peter Prokosch

Storm surge "Capella", January 3, 1976, Hilligenley, Hallig Langeness, GermanyThe Gale of January 1976, widely known as the "Capella" storm in Germany, was one in a series of extratropical cyclones and storm surges, which occurred over January 1976. The gale resulted in severe wind damage across w...

By Peter Prokosch

Storm surge "Capella", January 3, 1976, Hilligenley, Hallig Langeness, GermanyThe Gale of January 1976, widely known as the "Capella" storm in Germany, was one in a series of extratropical cyclones and storm surges, which occurred over January 1976. The gale resulted in severe wind damage across w...

By Peter Prokosch

Storm surge "Capella", January 3, 1976, Hilligenley, Hallig Langeness, GermanyThe Gale of January 1976, widely known as the "Capella" storm in Germany, was one in a series of extratropical cyclones and storm surges, which occurred over January 1976. The gale resulted in severe wind damage across w...

By Peter Prokosch

Storm surge "Capella", January 3, 1976, Hilligenley, Hallig Langeness, GermanyThe Gale of January 1976, widely known as the "Capella" storm in Germany, was one in a series of extratropical cyclones and storm surges, which occurred over January 1976. The gale resulted in severe wind damage across w...

By Peter Prokosch

Walking on the seabed from Hallig Hooge to Japsand, National Park Schleswig- Holstein Wadden Sea,Seabed meets Horizon. The tidal flats between Den Helder in the Netherlands and Esbjerg in Denmark are the largest continuous tidal flats in the world and one of the last areas in Europe where nature can still develop to...

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Lycian Way at Cape Gelidonia, Beydaglari Coastal (Olympos) National Park, TurkeyLycian Way is a 509-km, waymarked hiking trail in southwestern Turkey, connecting Fethiye in the west with southwest of Antalya in the east along the Lycian coast. To walk the trail (best time April/May or October/Novemb...

By Peter Prokosch

Coastal Forest at Lycian Way near Adrasan, Beydaglari Coastal (Olympos) National Park, TurkeyLycian Way is a 509-km, waymarked hiking trail in southwestern Turkey, connecting Fethiye in the west with southwest of Antalya in the east along the Lycian coast. To walk the trail (best time April/May or October/Novemb...

By Peter Prokosch

Adrasan beach near Beydaglari Coastal (Olympos) National Park, TurkeyThere are conflicts between tourism development and nature conservation in South Antalya, Turkey, in terms of land loss and changes. It is revealed that borders of the Olympos-Beydağları National Park occupying 69 800 ha...

By Peter Prokosch

Side beach, TurkeyThe Turkish coast around Antalya is one of the most visited tourism destinations of the Mediterranean. Although sections are ruined by mass tourism and ugly hotels they contrast to the rich nature and high and often ende...

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Little Gull (Larus minutus) adult, Side, TurkeyThe little gull is the smallest gull species and can be seen regularly in winter at the Mediterranean coast. On migration the species occurs at sea, along shores, and on reservoirs, lagoons and lakes, wintering along the...

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Little Gull (Larus minutus) juvenile, Side, TurkeyThe little gull is the smallest gull species and can be seen regularly in winter at the Mediterranean coast. On migration the species occurs at sea, along shores, and on reservoirs, lagoons and lakes, wintering along the...